Sentence examples for deficit items from inspiring English sources

Most geographical regions showed moderate-to-large differential item functioning for Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale expressive deficit items, especially N3 Poor Rapport, as compared with Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale experiential deficit items, showing that these items might be interpreted or scored differently in different regions.

To allow better comparison between the datasets, each with a different number of social deficits, the social vulnerability index was also calculated as a proportion of the total number of deficit items by dividing the sum of deficit scores by the number of deficits considered (40 in the CSHA and 23 in the NPHS), yielding an index with a theoretical range of 0 1.

No individual had > 5% missing deficit items.

Deficit items with no missing data or had less than 30%% missing, with a prevalence greater than 5%% and less than 80%%, a correlation with age greater than rs = +0.05 and a significant association with health status (p  < 0.05) met the criteria.

The Federal Reserve's happy statistics on household wealth omit a big deficit item, and when you include it you have to stop talking about the national net worth.

Instead, they ramped up calls for cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits, items that House Speaker John Boehner has said repeatedly will be part of any talks on debt limit legislation.

I took the bottle and handed over two of the three perch I'd brought back from the river his portion for being so well informed about so many things, like where and to whom to sell my fish, a deficit food item, and how much to ask per kilo.

Variables that were very highly correlated (r > 0.9) were either grouped into a multi-item deficit, or only the item with the highest correlation with age was included.

The anti-deficit lobby has had extraordinary success, though, in making the deficit the top item on the Washington agenda.

Still, beyond the sheer size of the deficit, one crucial item in the new financial report points to the enormity of the task ahead.

The scales assessing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (17 items; e.g., "Has difficulty paying attention to tasks or play activities"), oppositional defiant disorder (8 items; e.g., "Does things to deliberately annoy others"), and conduct disorder (15 items; e.g., "Has run away from home overnight") were used.